Abstract For a given graph G , the general position problem asks for largest set of vertices $$S \subseteq V(G)$$ S ⊆ V ( G ) such that no three distinct S belong to common shortest path . The Cartesian...

We determine the values of s and t for which there is a coloring of the edges of the complete bipartite graph Ks,t which admits only the identity automorphism. In particular this allows us to determine the distinguishing number of the Cartesian product of complete graphs. The distinguishing number of a graph is the minimum number of colors needed to label the vertices so that the only color pre...

A local coloring of a graph G is a function c : V (G) → N such that for each S ⊆ V (G), 2 ≤ |S| ≤ 3, there exist u, v ∈ S with |c(u) − c(v)| at least the size of the subgraph induced by S. The maximum color assigned by c is the value χl(c) of c, and the local chromatic number of G is χl(G) = min{χl(c) : c local coloring of G}. In this note the local chromatic number is determined for Cartesian ...

We investigate graphs and hypergraphs that have (relaxed) product structures. In the class of graphs, we discuss in detail RSP-relations, a relaxation of relations fulfilling the square property and therefore of the product relation σ, that identifies the copies of the prime factors of a graph w.r.t. the Cartesian product. For K2,3-free graphs finest RSP-relations can be computed in polynomial-...

We consider classes of graphs that enjoy the following properties: they are closed for gated subgraphs, gated amalgamation and Cartesian products, and for any gated subgraph the inverse of the gate function maps vertices to gated subsets. We prove that any graph of such a class contains a peripheral subgraph which is a Cartesian product of two graphs: a gated subgraph of the graph and a prime g...

We discuss how to find the well-covered dimension of a graph that is the Cartesian product of paths, cycles, complete graphs, and other simple graphs. Also, a bound for the well-covered dimension of Kn × G is found, provided that G has a largest greedy independent decomposition of length c < n. Formulae to find the well-covered dimension of graphs obtained by vertex blowups on a known graph, an...